Given the situation in the Middle East, there is a growing need for Arab Americans to be in the media and weigh in on the issues that matter. During the height of the revolution in Egypt we put a number of individuals in contact with various media outlets to ensure Arab American voices were heard. It is extremely important to AAI and to the community that Arab Americans are represented in the media. Please continue to share your news with us and let us know what you are doing. Additionally, if you need any help in contacting the media, we have several tools available and would be happy to assist. Here are some appearances of Jim on a few programs we'd like to share with you. You can also share your news with us by...

On Tuesday, Democratic Party Whip Senator Dick Durbin (IL) convened a hearing on the civil rights of American Muslims. Viewed widely as a counterweight to Representative Peter King's (R-NY) hearings on "radicalization" in the American Muslim community, Durbin's hearing did not garner nearly as much attention from the media. Despite the relative lack of coverage, the message Senator Durbin's hearings sent to the American Muslim community and to the general American public at large was an extremely important and positive one.

Air Date: 3/31/2011
Aaron David Miller, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; Faiz Shakir, Vice President and Editor of ThinkProgress; Tamara Cofman Wittes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Air Date: 3/17/2011
Thomas Lippman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; Richard Downie, Deputy Director and fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa program; Shane D'Aprile, Campaign Reporter The Hill newspaper and Senior Editor at Politics Magazine.

Air Date: 3/3/2011
Marina Ottaway, Director of the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Max Blumenthal, award winning journalist and author; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations for Americans for Peace Now.

Air Date: 2/24/2011
Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, Washington, DC for the International Crisis Group (ICG); Ahmed Salah, Co-founder of Egypt's April 6th Youth Movement; Robert Borosage, Founder and President, Institute for America's Future; Michael Sfard, human rights lawyer and legal expert on Israeli settlements.